El problema agrario es un tema económico y político. Los intentos de resolverlo únicamente por vías técnicas han sido un fracaso. Así lo demuestra la realidad. Se han hecho esfuerzos por vías políticas, y poco se ha avanzado. Así lo demuestra la historia. La falta de una solución...

The purpose of this article is to show that the strong increase in internal displacement and international emigration in Colombia during the last years has had repercussions in terms of child labour. On the one hand, because migration tends to enhance the vulnerability of minors to the risks of...

The 2005 Census brings, for the first time, detailed information about Colombian migration flows. This paper analyses information related to Colombians living abroad, and examines the main causes of emigration. With this purpose, it calculates the emigration rate by department and uses an...

Orthodox and heterodox economists have promoted different liberalization measures in the economy in accordance with its vision for agriculture and manufacturing sectors. In this paper, we try to determine the impact of external terms of trade and domestic (the latter considers foreign trade...

The recent international financial crisis has highlighted the role of real asset prices in the macroeconomic fluctuations of advanced economies. This paper analyzes the effects of some external and domestic shocks in the real prices of agricultural land in Argentina economy and compared the...

The paper search for evidence of poverty traps in different regions of Argentina. The selected methodology is based on the model proposed by Antman and Mckenzie (2005), it suggests a specification for the income’s dynamic that allows multiple balances, using the framework of classical growth...

The article presents the results of the interregional analysis of Costa Rica 2011-2016, from the perspective of neo-structuralist economics, based on official sources. The objective is to reflect differences in the socio-economic development of the country, relating them to productive...

The present article aims to analyze the Cartagena de Indias poverty profile and its determinants, which have a direct impact on the probability of a household could be identify as poor or not, through a logistic regression analysis, based on the Logit Binomial model. On the basis of this model,...

Este artículo muestra la relación entre el utilitarismo y las mediciones de pobreza. No obstante los esfuerzos por encontrar índices que superen las limitaciones del utilitarismo, aún conservan un profundo espíritu benthamiano. No ha sido posible romper la asociación entre porciones de...